Spoonful
Sign in to save"Spoonful" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded in 1960 by Howlin' Wolf. Called "a stark and haunting work", it is one of Dixon's best known and most interpreted songs. Etta James and Harvey Fuqua had a pop and R&B record chart hit with their duet cover of "Spoonful" in 1961 and it was popularized in the late 1960s by the British rock group Cream.
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- Song.name
- Spoonful
- Song.cover
- SpoonfulCream.jpg
- Song.artist
- Cream
- Song.type
- single
- Song.B side
- "Spoonful Part 2"
- Song.recorded
- November 1966
- Song.studio
- Mayfair Sound, London
- Song.genre
- Hard rock blues rock psychedelic rock
- Song.label
- Chess
- Song.writer
- Willie Dixon
- Song.producer
- Robert Stigwood
- Song.prev_title
- I've Been Abused
- Song.prev_year
- 1959
- Song.next_title
- Back Door Man
- Song.next_year
- 1961
- Song.alt
- Australian label for Spoonful
- Song.album
- Fresh Cream
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- 1960-00-00
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- Spoonful
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"Spoonful" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded in 1960 by Howlin' Wolf. Called "a stark and haunting work", it is one of Dixon's best known and most interpreted songs. Etta James and Harvey Fuqua had a pop and R&B record chart hit with their duet cover of "Spoonful" in 1961 and it was popularized in the late 1960s by the British rock group Cream.
==Background and lyrics== Dixon's "Spoonful" is loosely based on "A Spoonful Blues", a song recorded in 1929 by Charley Patton. Earlier related songs include "All I Want Is a Spoonful" by Papa Charlie Jackson (1925) and "Cocaine Blues" by Luke Jordan (1927).